Appeal of Joe Curcio

Opinion by

Keller, J.,

About ten o’clock in the morning of November 8, 1930 two county detectives raided the billiard room of Joe Curcio in the City of Johnstown. They found all the equipment and paraphernalia used in the “number” game, an illegal lottery. See Com. v. Banks, 98 Pa. Superior Ct. 432. They also found several men counting and sorting money which was spread out on a table, and putting it up into packages of bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, etc. There was also some money in a cigar box. The detectives confiscated the gambling paraphernalia, and seized the money found, amounting to…